It seemed to be the same kind of vegetable production that Sir Joseph Banks had formerly distinguished by the appellation of _fucus giganteus_.

Although the stem is not much thicker than a man's hand, Captain Cook thought himself well warranted to say, that part of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward.
The result of the examination of Kerguelen's Land was, that the quantity of latitude which it occupies doth not much exceed one degree and a quarter.

Its extent, from east to west, still remains undecided.
At its first discovery, it was probably supposed to belong to a southern continent; but, in fact, it is an island, and that of no great extent.

If our commander had not been unwilling to deprive M.
Kerguelen of the honour of its bearing his name, he would have been disposed, from its sterility, to call it the Island of Desolation.
It should here be mentioned, that M.de Kerguelen made two visits to the coast of this country; one in 1772 and another in 1773.

With the first of these voyages Captain Cook had only a very slight acquaintance; and to the second he was totally a stranger; so that he scarcely had any opportunity of comparing his own discoveries with those of the French navigator.